clap your hands Here s the neat takeaway from Rod Dreher registering his disgust at Real Clear Religion as the applauseometer jumped when Gov Rick Perry defended Texas indefensible record on capital punishment It is worth contemplating why it is that conservatives who believe the government

Today NPR offered a beautiful tribute to Franciscan Father Mychal Judge through the stories of one man who knew him mdash and one man who didn t Both were deeply affected by Judge s life and actions The piece includes an excerpt of the homily given by Father Michael Duffy also a Franciscan In t

This music video is floating through the byways of Facebook these days It has absolutely nothing to do with 9 11 nothing but something of the spirit of it captures my own hopes for our world 10 years later nbsp And if you need yet another 9 11 piece to read I wrote this for Eureka Stree

While the nbsp topic shouldn t overshadow the magnitude of the memorial services I agree with the much of the criticism over the exclusion of clergy from the official 9 11 ceremony in New York City nbsp An article in the New York Times Omitting Clergy at 9 11 Ceremony Prompts Protest nbsp by

It seems hard to believe but it was only a couple months ago that celebrity Donald Trump was flirting with running for the GOP nomination for president when he was thoroughly humiliated by President Obama at the White House Correspondent s Dinner ldquo For example ndash no seriously ndash rec

From America s issue of Oct 1 2001 On Sept 13 two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I had been there ea